Riki Tsunomiya paused for a moment, "It all started because I ran away. I am guilty. I was disrespectful to the gods and betrayed them. It has nothing to do with the world. Please blame me alone!"

"What right do you have?" the voice asked again.

“I…” Riki Tsunomiya was stunned, unable to speak for a moment, and could only kneel and pray: “If you forgive the world, I am willing to do anything!”

"I don't want to!" The Snow Child appeared in the heavy snow.

“Yuki-dō…” Jigsō Riki knelt on the ground, her head bowed, hidden by her disheveled white hair, her voice hoarse: “The Jigsō family and Ibaraki are dead…”

In this destruction, the Jinomiya family and Ibaraki were among the first to fall.

She watched as her father, mother, and eight-year-old brother died right before her eyes, their souls scattered.

As Ibaraki Castle crumbled bit by bit, not a single person managed to escape.

Watching the world crumble and countless people die...

All of this started because of her.

She choked back tears as she said, "Xue Tong, don't you understand...?"

Yuki-dō gritted her teeth and shouted at the shrine, "What kind of god is this! You arrogant god, thinking you're so high and mighty that you can rule over all living beings! Why should she be trapped here by you forever! Today I'll smash up your sick shrine!"

He kicked over the stone lantern at his feet, and with a wave of his hand, a violent blizzard swept through the shrine. "You dare come out and kill me! You... uh..."

Before he could finish speaking, a cold light surged from the shrine, piercing through his body, and the wind and snow in the world suddenly stopped.

"Snow Child! Snow Child..." Riki Jinomiya was trembling all over, crawling on the ground as she called out, "Snow Child..."

A large hole appeared in the snowman's chest, and he fell heavily to the ground. He didn't even get to utter his last words before turning into wind and snow and disappearing.

"Why..." Riki Tsunomiya stared at all of this in disbelief, her despair filling her with a sense of collapse.

Su Deng watched all of this with a cold eye, remaining completely unmoved.

"What exactly do you want..." Riki Jimiya collapsed to the ground, conversing with the gods: "I am willing to atone for my sins with everything I have..."

"I want your soul," the god spoke.

“Soul…” Riki Tsunomiya knelt on the ground, utterly distraught. “Okay.”

The moment she answered, the collapse of the world below the mountain came to an abrupt halt, and the people there also remained still.

Even the leaves on the leaves were still; all was silent.

Su Deng narrowed her eyes and silently moved the fingers she could move. She seemed unbound by the laws here, but she pretended to be frozen in place, leaning against the tree without moving, her open eyes not even fluttering her eyelashes.

"From this moment on, your soul belongs to me."

After the voice of the god rang out, a beam of light entered Riki Tsunomiya's body.

"I am the Divine Lord of the Divine Court. I now exchange my soul with you. From this moment forward, you will be the Twelfth Executor of the Divine Court, representing this realm and conveying the will of the gods!"

Su Deng's pupils suddenly contracted.